SALAMANCA

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SALAMANCA , a

village

VILLAGE

in Cattaraugus county, New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

,
U.S.A., in the township of Salamanca, about 52 M. S. by E. of Buffalo. Pop. (1900), 4251, of whom 789 were foreign-born; (1910, census), 5792. Salamanca is served by the Erie, the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg and the

Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

railways, and by interurban electric lines connecting with Olean, N. Y., Bradford,

Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

, and Little Valley (pop in 1910,
1368), the county-seat, about 8 m. N. The

village

VILLAGE

is built on both sides of the Allegany river. The agricultural and industrial
development of the region has been retarded by its being within the Allegany Indian Reservation (allotted originally to the Seneca Indians by the Big Tree Treaty of 1798 and still including the valley of the Allegany river for several miles above and below Salamanca); but land is now held under a 99 year lease authorized by Congress in 1892. The village is a railway centre and division terminal, and has repair shops of the Erie and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg railways. The first settlement in the

district

DISTRICT

(which was included within the " Holland Purchase " of 1792-1793) was made in 1815 near the site of West Salamanca (pop. in 1910, J30), 1 a M. W. of Salamanca, and in the same township. Salamanca (until 1873 known as

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

Salamanca) was incorporated in 1879, taking its name from the township, which was erected in 1854 as Buck Tooth Township and in 1862 was renamed in honour of a Spanish banker who was a large stockholder of the Atlantic &

Great

GREAT

Western railway, built through the township this year, and later
merged with the Erie railway.
See History of Cattaraugus County, New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
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YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

(Philadelphia, Pa., 1879).

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